Sunday, August 24, 2014

We have upgraded to CakePHP 1.3. This will not have any visible impact for users. The next step would be to upgrade to version 2.x, but there is no clear plan for it at the moment.

We have changed the links to the wiki to make it less confusing for non-English users. The links currently point to the English version only, because too much of the wiki content is untranslated. When the links were not forced to English, non-English users would be redirected to the non-English version of the page and find an empty page or a page requesting them to log in, because the page was not translated or didn't exist.

We have fixed various graphical bugs.

Donations news

We recently receive a very high donation of 1939€. The donator wished to remain anonymous. We also received another non-negligeable 100€, thank you Ray!

In total we have now received 2334€ in donations, which means Tatoeba can afford to pay for a dedicated server for the next few years. We will therefore much less likely have all issues of slowness and unavailabilities that you may have experienced in the past.
With these donations we can also start considering using platforms such as Bountysource to get things done faster.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

We have changed the URL of the downloads files, containing the data that we redistribute. The files are also now compressed. The old URL is still available for the time being, but will no more contain the latest data.

International targeting

We've included the necessary HTML tags for Google to display the results in the relevant language, and not systematically in English.
On a related topic, we still (and will always) need people to help us translate Tatoeba's interface into other languages. If you would like to help, check out the instructions here.

Donation news

We'd like to thank our two latest donators, Dmitriy and Aleksandr. We've had 8 donations so far, that amount to a total of 295€. The top donation was 100€.

Friday, August 8, 2014

We know that the list of languages has gotten pretty long, and it can be unpractical to select a language, so we're introducing a better language selector. The new selector has a search field and you will be able to filter the list to show only languages that match the characters that you have entered.
This feature is only available for registered members at the moment. It requires you to activate it from your settings (Options > Advanced language selector). We did not want to make it globally available since (not yet at least) we know that it may not work on tablets. If you have a tablet, please let us know if/how it works for you.

Other bug fixes

We fixed a bug where the logs did not record the user who added a sentence/translation.

We fixed the pagination for the "contributions" page when a language is specified.

We hope that you've been enjoying hanging on Tatoeba now that it's hosted on a new server :) We received 3 donations since the migration so I'd like to thank (again) William, Gary and Shayne for their donations.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Tatoeba is finally back! Again, we are really sorry for the inconvenience that the unavailability of the website may have caused you. Our previous server was getting way to unstable and we had no more choice but to move to a new one.

With this migration, we have included a few fixes and improvements:

The interface now remembers the most recent list to which you assigned a sentence and sets that as the default when you want to assign another sentence to a list.

Within sentences, runs of multiple spaces, as well as tabs and line breaks, are now condensed into single spaces. This makes the database contents consistent with the display. Non-breaking spaces are unaffected.

We now print the search results string correctly for words in languages that are written from right to left.

I'd like to take this occasion to mention again donations. I know that several people have expressed the desire to support Tatoeba financially, so if you are one of them, you will find the necessary information here.
I'd also like to mention as well that this migration would have never been possible without gillux and saeb. Moving Tatoeba to a new server was not an easy task at all. So if you want to thank anyone for restoring the website, you should thank them. The project sure needs more people like them :)